Nicolaus Copernicus - Astronomer - The Sun, not the Earth, is at the center of the universe.
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Nicolaus Copernicus - Astronomer - The Sun, not the Earth, is at the center of the universe.
-
Narrated by:
-
By:
About this listen
Nicolaus Copernicus - Astronomer - The Sun, not the Earth, is at the center of the universe.
Today we climb a chilly tower stair in Royal Prussia, where sea wind presses against old brick and a bellrope hums in the draft. The town is Frombork—Frauenburg in the Latin letters of the time—perched on the Vistula Lagoon. Below us a canon’s garden is squared into beds; a copper astrolabe hangs near a window to warm just enough that fingers won’t sting when they touch it at dusk; a long wooden staff with sliding crosspieces leans beside a stool. In the narrow room, a man in a dark robe writes in a practiced hand with a patience that does not look like hesitation. He is not a court philosopher. He is not a cloistered mystic. He is a chapter functionary, a physician, an administrator, a careful observer. He is Nicolaus Copernicus, and in this brick quiet he will move the sun to the center of the planetary stage and set the earth in motion, and the consequences will run everywhere human certainty had laid its weight.
By Selenius Media